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slab breakoff: a standalone construct

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Tectonics

the detachment of a subducted oceanic slab from the buoyant continental lithosphere after collision, predicted to trigger uplift and a pulse of magmatism.

In tectonics, slab breakoff refers to the detachment of a subducted oceanic slab from the buoyant continental lithosphere after collision, predicted to trigger uplift and a pulse of magmatism. This meaning comes from Huw Davies (1995) in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.[1]

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collision3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs pulse3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs slab1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Huw Davies, J., & von Blanckenburg, F. (1995). Slab breakoff: A model of lithosphere detachment and its test in the magmatism and deformation of collisional orogens. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 129(1-4), 85-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821x(94)00237-s

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